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Sweden, like all asylum countries, never sends people back to their homecountries before carefully assessing their protection needs. It is your grounds forseeking asylum that are important. Submitting a passport or any other documentproving your identity has positive effects on your asylum application. Ifyou are granted asylum even though your identity has not been established, yourtravel document will note that your identity is “un-established’’. Therefore, do nothesitate to submit identification documents (passport/id-cards) if you have any.What does it mean if an asylum case becomes a security case(säkerhetsärende)?When it is found that the presence of a certain person in the country could constitutea threat to national security, the application is classed as a security case. Insuch cases there is a special procedure for examining the application for asylum,and the Migration Board refers the case to the government to make a decisionon the application for asylum.How is my asylum application processed (asylprövning)?www.migrationsverket.se/infomaterial/om_verket/ny_ordning_en.pdfThe Swedish Aliens Act emphasises that the examination of an asylum applicationhas to focus on the protection needs of the individual asylum seeker. InSweden, unlike in some other asylum countries, the definition of a refugee includespeople who are persecuted for reasons of their gender or sexual orientation/disposition.The provisions on persons otherwise in need of protection is alsoextended to include people fleeing because of severe conflicts in the country oforigin and feeling a well-founded fear of serious abuses. Particularly distressingcircumstances such as the applicant’s state of health, adaptation to life in Swedenand the applicant’s situation in the country of origin may in exceptional caseslead to a residence permit being granted if none of the grounds of protection areapplicable. This, however, requires an overall assessment when examining thesecases.Appeals against negative decisions made by the Swedish Migration Board onasylum applications are submitted to a court of law known as Migration Courts.This sometimes means that the asylum seeker and the Swedish Migration Boardmeet as two parties in a court of law. This is intended to make the asylum processmore transparent and more oral. However, it is not uncommon that an appeal ishandled in a written procedure.The following is a description of the procedures and processes an asylum applicationgoes through from the day it reaches the Swedish Migration Boarduntil a final decision is made.16 | Asylum RECEPTION in FOCUS
The Swedish Migration Board – First instance decisionThe Lawyer in the presence of an interpreter makes an interview with you in orderto put together reasons/grounds for your needs of protection and then sendsyour application to the Migration Board. Here you are expected to give all informationthat is related to your need for protection. In the interview, throughan interpreter speaking your language, you answer/explain the reasons that madeyou leave your country and why you need protection. The information you providein this interview becomes the foundation for your application for asylumwhich is then used by the Migration Board to decide whether you are entitledto stay in Sweden or not. If you have documents in support of the informationyou are providing, you must submit them. It is extremely important that youexplain clearly why you are in need of protection in Sweden. Saying that thegovernment in your country violates human rights or that the general situationin your country is unstable is not sufficient to allow you to stay in Sweden. Youmust explain why your government has an “interest’’ in you as an individual and/or that the government cannot or will not provide you protection from non-stateactors which in either case might result in you facing persecution and/or serioushuman rights violations. The same applies if you apply for asylum because youhave good reasons to fear capital punishment or torture. You can also apply forasylum if you need protection due to war (internal/external) or an environmentaldisaster in your native country.The interpreter has the duty of confidentiality but if you feel that they areunreliable or biased in their political opinions, you have the right to request achange of interpreter. Female asylum seekers can also request to have a femaleinterpreter, lawyer and/or case officer if they want to.In your asylum application, if you provide any information which is not true,it may lead to the authorities becoming suspicious of other information whichyou have provided. If it is discovered that you have gained a residence permit onthe basis of false information, your permit may be revoked. Information concerningthis is usually given to you by the Migration Board.When a written application is prepared and submitted, the case officer at theSwedish Migration Board calls the asylum seeker to a supplementary interviewbefore making a final decision on the asylum application.The waiting period varies from case to case. It can be a few months or muchlonger. If a positive decision is made then the asylum seeker gets a permanentresidence permit (PUT) – sometimes it can be temporary residence permit(TUT) – in Sweden and is automatically discharged from the Migration Boardand is placed (settles) in a municipality. If a negative decision is made on theapplication the asylum seeker is given two options: either to accept the decisionand return to his/her home country, or appeal the negative decision toA Handbook for Asylum Seekers in Sweden | 17
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Page 3 and 4: Asylum Reception in FocusA series f
Page 5 and 6: ContentQuick index for the chapters
Page 7 and 8: ForewordThere is a real need among
Page 9 and 10: PrefaceDear asylum seeker,This hand
Page 11 and 12: Asylumwww.migrationsverket.seDefini
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